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Hello:
I have four radio buttons, each mutually exclusive. I want to show a
div area somewhere else on the page when one of these radio buttons is
clicked. I know how to do that in HTML - how do I do that in rails?
Here's one of my radio buttons:
<%= f.radio_button (:goaltype_id, 1) %>&nbsp;&nbsp;One-Time<br>
Thank you very much in advance!
Mike

Hi Mike,
Miked wrote:
> I want to show a div area somewhere else on the page when one of these> radio buttons is clicked.
If you're talking about an Ajax-style update, as a first step, you
should
take a look at the form types that do that (i.e., submit using
XMLHttpRequest). From there, updating a specific div on a page is
pretty
much a slam dunk using RJS. I strongly recommend Cody Fauser's RJS
tutorial
on O'Reilly to get your feet wet in that area. Best $10 you'll spend on
learning Rails.
hth,
Bill

Hi Bill:
Thanks so much for your reply. I was looking into the XMLHttpRequest
but I'm not finding in the rails api. I definitely want to use the
ajax method. I've only seen it attached to a submit tag though - can I
use it with a radio button as well? Definitely something I want to
do. I'm also going to use that book - it looks great, but no time for
that until the weekend!
So here's the code:
<% form_remote_tag :url => { :action => :goaltype, :id => product } do
%>
<%= f.radio_button ("Goal", "radio", "onetime")
%>&nbsp;&nbsp;One-Time<br>
<% end %>
And then the RJS code:
page.replace_html("goaltype" , :partial => "goal_type")
But what happens in the controller method, since all I really want it
to do is render the partial?
Thanks again.
Mike